Ken Grimes: Evidence for contact
Ricco/Maresca gallery is pleased to present Ken Grimes Evidence for Contact, a retrospective exhibition organized to coincide with the release of a major book of the same title.
Published by Anthology Editions (October 24, 2023), this volume is entirely devoted to the life and 40-year career of Ken Grimes.
Born in New York in 1947, Ken Grimes grew up in Cheshire, Connecticut. When he was in his twenties, he was diagnosed with schizophrenia and was forced to abandon his university studies. At the end of the Vietnam War, his father, who headed an arms manufacturing company, sold his business and built a tennis center, which would become a central theme in his son’s drawings. “I think my father felt somewhat responsible for my illness, so in a way, he wanted to be involved,” Grimes explained.